Development of the Functional Vision Questionnaire for Children and Young People with Visual Impairment: The FVQ_CYP – Corrected Proof

Objective: To develop a novel age-appropriate measure of functional vision (FV) for self-reporting by visually impaired (VI) children and young people.Design: Questionnaire development.Participants: A representative patient sample of VI children and young people aged 10 to 15 years, visual acuity of the logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution (logMAR) worse than 0.48, and a school-based (nonrandom) expert group sample of VI students aged 12 to 17 years.Methods: A total of 32 qualitative semistructured interviews supplemented by narrative feedback from 15 eligible VI children and young people were used to generate draft instrument items. Seventeen VI students were consulted individually (Read more...)